PhoneGap - android exit on backbutton

Question

I am trying to program RSS reader using jquery mobile and cordova. My RSS reader consists of 3 pages (in same HTML document: page1, page2, page3). I am trying to override (h

Answer 1

You need to wait for the device to be ready to add the event listener:

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

function onDeviceReady(){
    document.addEventListener("backbutton", function(e){
       if($.mobile.activePage.is('#homepage')){
           e.preventDefault();
           navigator.app.exitApp();
       }
       else {
           navigator.app.backHistory();
       }
    }, false);
}